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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9409548" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Why does it matter if a single studio out of the four or five they have has or has not released a game? And, would you say that Random House is in the Book Industry? Because they didn't write "All the Colors of the Dark" but they did PUBLISH it, so they are a book publishing company. WotC publishes video games, and has for years. It is a distinction whose only purpose seems to be putting scare quotes around future potential actions from WoTC.I mean, you have literally expressed concerns over WoTC "getting into" video games and "becoming" a video game company, and the only reason to argue with us that it isn't already a company is that if it is, then there is no need for your concerns.What do you mean kidding? Hasbro is the publisher that owns DnD, yes, that makes them an RPG company, because they produce RPG's. Again, from a practical standpoint, not a legal one, what is the difference? And, I don't know why you want to say that they have a "disastrous" record when they worked closely with Larian Studios to make Baldur's Gate 3, which was an insanely massive hit. Planescape: Torment, also a video game, also a massive success.... Yes, and if you make a train it needs to roll over rails. That's not granting you anything, that is stating a fact. A DnD video game is inherently more limited than a DnD pen-and-paper game. We've known this for three decades.It would be a bad thing that a video game is a video game? Why? Do we also state that it is a bad thing that comics use images AND text? Kind of inherent in the medium.If you are saying that DnD is going to get digitized to the extent that a game of Critical Role can happen if run by a computer... then you are talking about True Artificial General Intelligence. You are talking the Matrix and everything like it. WoTC dipping their toes into video games is not going to create that. So... what is it you are worried about? WoTC making video games has happened, even if you insist that a DnD video game made by a studio owned by WoTC doesn't count for reasons, DnD video games have been created. So... what's the next step here? DnD Video Game --> The Matrix --> Profit?I never said that. Why do you think that WoTC making a video game would lobotomize all DMs and Players?Making and selling video games is peripheral to being a video game company? What is central to it then?None of the rest of this replies to me. I get you supposedly need to break every post into a sentence by sentence line to respond to every sentence individually, but if you are going to do that AND respond to three people at once, at least be polite enough to provide obvious breaks in who you are talking to.</blockquote>

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